Grassl gentian distillery

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The Grassl gentian distillery in Berchtesgaden is the oldest gentian distillery in Germany.

history

The history of Enzianbrennerei Grassl can be traced back to 1692 when a family of innkeepers called Grassl from the Prince Provost or the Electoral Cologne Administrator of Berchtesgaden Joseph Clemens of Bavaria was given the right in Berchtesgaden to gentian roots to dig and liquor from burning . After the secularization of the Berchtesgaden prince provosts (1803) and the annexation of the Berchtesgadener Land to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1810 , the family's rights were first withdrawn, but were re-certified in 1842.

At first, the schnapps found its buyers only in the vicinity of the place of production, but tourism, which began in Berchtesgaden in the 19th century, opened up new groups of buyers for the company. In the 1960s and 1970s several gentian distilleries a. a. from Bad Reichenhall , Salzburg and Munich and the surrounding area. At the beginning of the 1980s, the company employed a total of around 100 people. While there were only 30 in 2006, in 2014 around 40 employees again manufactured around 30 different in-house products.

Until the 1960s, the distillery was a sole proprietorship of a Grassl descendant, after which the company was transferred to the legal form of a GmbH & Co. KG with the former managing director Josef Beierl as the majority shareholder, in which a family member still holds a third is. In 2014 the brothers Florian and Martin Beierl took over the majority stake from their father and have been working as managing partners for the company ever since.

Companies

The headquarters of the company with the main distillery , administration, warehouse, dispatch and visitor area including tasting and shop sales is now in the Berchtesgadener Gnotschaft Unterau . A shop is operated in the Berchtesgaden market. The distilleries are spread over the high elevations of the Berchtesgaden valley basin.

Products

In addition to other spirits produced in-house, the main product is still the mountain gentian . In addition, the company sells u. a. also Austrian wines.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enzianbrennerei Grassl in: Hellmut Schöner : Berchtesgaden in the course of time. Supplementary Volume I, 1982, pp. 115-116.
  2. ↑ a b 100 percent commitment for the high-proof , report of January 22, 2014 in the Berchtesgadener Anzeiger , online at berchtesgadener-anzeiger.de
  3. ↑ a b Grassl and the Enzian , message from October 1, 2006 in Welt Online , online at welt.de

Coordinates: 47 ° 39 '23.9 "  N , 13 ° 2' 27.1"  E